Hook and eye.



No. 699,076i PatentedApr. 29, |902.

E. E. cHlPmAN. HOOK AND EYE.

(Apixlicntion led June 25, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED i1 STATES,

PATENT Cifra-ICE.

' E. CHIPMAN, OF "WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT.

Hook AND EYE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 699,076, dated April29, 1902.

Application led June 25, 1901y To all whom it may concern.:

Be it known that I, EMMA E. CHIPMAN, acitizen of the United States, andaresident of Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State ofConnecticut,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hooksand Eyes, of

which the following isa specification.

My invention relates to new and useful labor-saving improvements inhooks and eyes, such as are employed upon garments and other articlesfor securing one part to another.

It is the object of myinvention to improve upon the construction ofarticles yof the above class by providing a hook or eye which can beattached to a garment more readily and with a fewer number of sewingsthan those now employed; further, to produce a hook which willremainattached longer than those now upon the market by reason of thefact` that the threads employed for its attachment are protected fromwear.

With the above objects in view my inven-Y tion resides and consistsinthe novel construe-- tion of a hook, as is shown on the accompanyingsheet ofdrawings, forming a part of this specification ,upon whichsimilar characters of reference denote like or corresponding partsthroughout the several figures, and of which- Figure l shows aperspective view of my novel hook attached to a piece of fabric. Fig. 2is a side elevation of the hook shown in Fig. 1. Figs. 3 and 4. show aplan 'and'side view of an eye made in accordance withmy invention. Fig.5 is a sideelevation of ahook constructed in accordance with myinvention and employing a preferred style of eye resistance or hump.This does away with the center or spring wire, thus saving wire in theconstruction of the hook.

cv c at the rear, and a central Araised part or hump d, which is locatedbeneath the tongue of the hook and adapted to operate in the usuallmanner to afford a resistance against the detachment of the eye B. Thisresistance or humpl CZ' (shown in Fig. 5) is rigid,.so to speak, beingformed in the two horizontal wires comprising the shank portionb, beforementioned, and consequently the tongue a' of the hook yields to permitthe passage thereunder of the eye B, whereas in the other form thehumpitself yields. n

' Within the top side of the shank portion b of the hook I form one ormoreattac'hingloopse, which IV arrange transversely of the Wires toform' thread-pockets below the top surface of the shank. These pocketsin practice serve to receive the attaching-threads and aiford severaladvantages, the first being the fact that the hook can be attached withtwo sewings by placing the hook or eye on the lining of the dressexactly the same as l-buttonsare placed on a ladies shoe, turn and delaythe work. A second and equally as desirable advantage of my invention isthe fact that the attaching-threads are below the top surface of thehook and as a result are not exposed to the wear of thethreadby frictionof the eye.

This invention is equally applicable to eyes, as is clearly apparentfrom ,the accompanying illustrations,.whereinfrepresents the eye proper,and hthe-horizontal shank portion, z' the eyes, and j the pockets forthe attaching-threads. The novel advantages recited forthe hook arepresent in the eye, and consequently I do not Wish to restrict the useof my invention to hooks alone.

yIn the accompanying drawings I have shown both a hookand eye, eachformed of a single piece of wire; but it will be obvious, of course,that my invention is equally applicable to hooks and eyes formed ofsheetmetal, and it isalso true that it is applicable -toy different vYstyles of hooks than those shown in the drawings, and is consequentlynot at all limitedto the structure described.

Having thurs described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

l. A hook comprising a hooked portion, a shank portion, eyes on saidshank portion, depending thread-pockets formed in both said shank andeye portions.

2. A hook of the class described, the same comprising a hook portion, ashank, eyes secured to said shank, and a depending threadpocket formedin said eyes for attachment of the hook to a garment.

3. A hook of the class described, the same comprising an engaging hookformed of a double portion of the Wire, a double horizontal rigid shankportion, eyes formed at the said thread-pockets, substantially as shownand described.

Signed at Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State ofConnecticut, this 19th day of June, A. D. 1901.

EMMA E. CHIPMAN.

Witnesses:

OLIVER S. BARTON, S. I-I. MCCAIN.

